Coining the slogan of ‘One Institution, One Block’ for imparting skill training to youth across the state, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday underscored the need of cooperation between State Government and private educational institutions to emerge the state as a pool of skilled manpower across the country.
Badal, addressing the gathering after inaugurating National Summit on Higher Education for Skill Development and Employability organised by Education Promotion Society for India (EPSI), said that the country was confronting major problems of unemployment and poverty, which could be resolved by imparting quality skill training to the youth.
Terming the skill training as the only solution, he said that this could open new avenues of employment for the youth,. “This is only possible if every educational institutions, with the Government’s support, adopts an administrative block in
The Chief Minister said that India was one of the youngest nations in the world with more than 65 percent of its population is below the age of 35.
However, he said that it was unfortunate that currently only three percent populace of the country was skilled as compared to the advanced countries with more than 90 percent skilled.
“Under the able leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an atmosphere of change is prevailing in the country and schemes like ‘Digital India’, ‘Make in India’ and others are aimed at promotion of skill training in the country, which is hitherto ignored by the previous governments,” he said..
The Chief Minister further said that the State Government has already chalked out a detailed action program to provide the best skill training to the unemployed youth as well as up-skilling them in specific fields viz healthcare and paramedics, driving and automotive, animal husbandry and allied farming and construction activity.
The State Technical Education and Industrial Training Department has been asked to rope in the world class skill development agencies for this purpose, he said.
With the support of the private educational institutions, the Skill development program, would turn into a ‘mass revolution’ said the Chief Minister